Research Article

Damage Detection on Sudden Stiffness Reduction Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform

Table 1

Natural frequency before and after sudden damage.

Damage extentFrequencies (Hz)

0%2.5137.33511.56314.85416.941
1%2.508 (−0.18%)7.324 (−0.15%)11.55 (−0.11%)14.85 (−0.05%)16.94 (−0.01%)
2%2.504 (−0.36%)7.313 (−0.30%)11.54 (−0.21%)14.84 (−0.11%)16.94 (−0.03%)
5%2.490 (−0.94%)7.278 (−0.78%)11.50 (−0.53%)14.81 (−0.26%)16.93 (−0.07%)
10%2.464 (−1.97%)7.218 (−1.62%)11.44 (−1.06%)14.78 (−0.52%)16.92 (−0.14%)
20%2.407 (−4.41%)7.088 (−3.48%)11.32 (−2.18%)14.71 (−1.01%)16.90 (−0.26%)
40%2.253 (−11.6%)6.781 (−8.16%)11.07 (−4.50%)14.57 (−1.92%)16.86 (−0.46%)

Note: values in brackets are the percentage of change in natural frequency.